"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.“
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion."
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"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."
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"Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence."
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"Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false."
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"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."
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